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Another cuboid from the series made by Gr�goire Pfennig and presented in early 2012.

In early 2012 Claus Wenicker presented one after the other a series of cuboids which have never been seen before. Some of them have proportional pieces. Others like this needed some "olzing".
This design uses a bandaged 95 mm 8x8x8 as mechanism. It was then cut to 57 mm and extended with 19 mm cubies, some of them split. It gives an illusion of a proportional 3x7x7, but with wrinkles and cracked (like cracked glass). In reality there are many fake lines, and the edges are much wider than the centres. Although it does look "normal" on the picture, each cubie is 19 mm. Because of such size motion can be tricky and hard. As usual with giant sized shapeshifters an issue occurs when pieces start sticking out too much making it so sharp and hard to grip because of height differences. This can be viewed as one of the ways to construct proportional floppy and double floppy cuboids, but with wrinkles and "scary" cracks like on the unfortunately dropped Ipad or destroyed glass, but the motion of these puzzles gets frustrating and horrendous.
Images 4-7 show the shapeshifting of this puzzle.
Size: 57 x 133 x 133 mm
Weight: 230 grams

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